Got Books?

[anarchosyn]

Humm.. seems like i've found myself in another slump regarding good fictional literature. Anybody have any suggestions of thought provoking titles to check out? Old or new.. what gets your blood going?

I find myself getting lost in the quasi-comical, yet wholely disheartening world of non-fiction far to often (Last few books on my desk -> physics of consciousness, post structuralist prose, synth manuals, some Hakim Bey and Howard Zinn writings, plus copious amounts of travel guides. Currently, I'm mired in a Csound textbook and reaktor tutorials).

I think the last great fictional work that crossed my mind was Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus Trilogy, but that was way the hell back in 1993 or so... . (wait, I read some pretty well written J.d. Salinger novels a few years back, but the subject matter was fairly uninteresting).


So.. got any suggestions? I'll turn around and pick up the first few suggestions.. I'm pretty hard up, and I trust the tastes of the majority of those who post here.........

[invisibleplanet]

try some Brazilian literature: Paolo Coehlo's 'The Alchemist' - it's a short story about a boy and how he comes to understand his destiny.

[aleks]

murder machine:a true story of murder,madness and the mafia by gene mustain and jerry capeci

[tsr_tomas]

vittula: it´s about a young boy from Pajala during the 60´s (pajala is way upnorth in sweden). he talks about wanking, girls, elvis, laedstinism, beatles, crazy originals from pajala and dreaming of going to china, but hes friend stops the traveling in frankfurt cos he takes a dump under a table at the airport café.
thats just the two first chapters.

o==8
tomas (haha, it misses me now).

[LEFTHANDLOU]

Anything By Jules Verne, Can't get better than the OG grandfather of Science fiction. Maybe Mysterious Island, or Journey to the center of the earth. Can't really go wrong with any of his books.

If not there is always the TV Guide :)

[KaOz]

check out herman hesse - siddartha or steppenwolf. or the lola principles from rene egli
peace